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divestment of a nationwide network of 205 Shell and SFR fuel stations; divestment of Shell's commercial fuels business and aviation fuel activities; a supply agreement with Dansk Shell (i.e. the Shell Refinery in Fredericia) valid until the end of 2016; access to two third party oil terminals and to SFR's oil terminal in Aalborg; a trademark license agreement with Shell allowing the buyer of the divested businesses to use the Shell brand; the transfer of roughly two thirds of Dansk Shell’s B2B customers to the buyer of the divestment businesses (fleet and commercial road transport ("CRT")) the ability for the buyer of the divestment busi ...[+++]nesses to issue euroShell cards to Danish customers and to accept international euroShell cards at all of its retail sites; the offer of a card acceptance agreement with SFR for acceptance of the euroShell card at 75 SFR sites for an initial period of 12 months which may be prolonged by an additional 12 months upon request of the buyer; and the transfer of all existing employees of Dansk Fuels to the buyer of the divestment businesses in order to ensure business continuity.

Question No. 671 Ms. Peggy Nash: With regard to the Advanced Manufacturing Fund for fiscal years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 (year-to-date): (a) how many companies have applied for funding; (b) what is the total amount of funding that has been given out, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) electoral riding, (iii) applications submitted by for-profit businesses, (iv) applications submitted by not-for-profit businesses; (c) how many companies have been rejected for funding, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) electoral riding, (iii) applications submitted by for-profit businesses, (iv) a ...[+++]pplications submitted by not-for-profit businesses; (d) what is the success rate of funding applications, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) electoral riding, (iii) applications submitted by for-profit businesses, (iv) applications submitted by not-for-profit businesses; and (e) what is the average amount of funding granted, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) electoral riding, (iii) applications submitted by for-profit businesses, (iv) applications submitted by not-for-profit businesses?

(k.1) if this paragraph applies, in computing the operator’s income or loss from the investment business, non-qualifying business, separate business or business described in paragraph (l) (each of these businesses being referred to in this paragraph as a “foreign business”), as the case may be, and the operator’s capital gain or capital loss from the disposition of property used or held in the course of carrying on the foreign business, for the specified taxation year and each subsequent taxation year or fiscal period in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator

Question No. 169 Mr. Jean Rousseau: With regard to the Canadian Initiative for the Economic Diversification of Communities Reliant on Chrysotile: (a) how many private businesses have applied for repayable loans to date and what are these businesses; (b) what are the amounts of the repayable loans extended to private businesses to date, broken down by business; (c) how many business support organizations have applied for grants to date and what are these organizations; (d) what are the amounts granted to business support organizations to date, broken down by business support organization; (e) how many non-profit organizations have applied ...[+++] for grants to date and what are these organizations; (f) what are the amounts granted to non-profit organizations to date, broken down by organization; (g) how many municipalities and RCMs have applied for grants to date and what are these municipalities and RCMs; and (h) what are the amounts granted to municipalities and RCMs to date, broken down by municipality and RCM?

3. Notwithstanding Article 49(6), in cases where an action for infringement is brought before the central division, a defendant having its residence, principal place of business or place of business in a Member State shall have the right to obtain, upon request, translations of relevant documents in the language of the Member State of residence, principal place of business or, in the absence of residence or principal place of business, place of business, in the following circumstances:

...orm (checks, bank loans, business loans, credit cards, cash) of the BCAP's loans, grants, and subsidies; (i) what were the conditions of acceptance to receive the BCAP program's support; (j) who was deciding on rejecting or accepting businesses into BCAP's loan program; (k) what were the eligibility criteria of BCAP's measures for businesses; (l) was there an evaluation grid of criteria needed for a business or individual to have access to BCAP's helping measures, and, if yes, who was the person or group of persons responsible for taking decisions concerning helping or not helping a business; (m) what is the total number of businesses ...[+++] that were directly helped by the BCAP program; (n) what was the composition of the oversight group managing the BCAP program; (o) were there any private companies involved in the acceptance or rejection process of the BCAP program, and, if yes, what were the names of the individuals that were involved and what were their roles within the BCAP program administration; (p) were there any conditions to receive financing from BCAP program; (q) what was the percentage and sum within the amount of BCAP resources allocated to small businesses (under 100 employees); (r) what was the percentage and sum within the amount of BCAP resources allocated to small businesses (under 500,000$ in revenue); (s) what was the percentage and sum within the amount of BCAP resources allocated to small businesses (under 500,000$ in revenue and under 100 employees); and (t) was anyone from the private sector consulted to allocate the resources of the BCAP and, if yes, what were their names and what were their roles in the process? ...

The bureaucratic burden on businesses should be reduced and the legal framework simplified. Cooperation between businesses should be strengthened through business clusters, networks and centres of excellence, and efforts should be made to promote synergies between universities and business.

The Commission observes that the exemption mechanism for energy-intensive businesses reduces the revenues of the settlement centre — OeMAG — as the electricity suppliers are not obliged to purchase green electricity for those energy-intensive businesses that have been granted an exemption, and the direct payment made to OeMAG by the energy-intensive businesses is lower than what OeMAG would have received had the energy-intensive businesses not been exempted.

A business combination involving entities or businesses under common control is a business combination in which all of the combining entities or businesses are ultimately controlled by the same party or parties both before and after the business combination, and that control is not transitory.

A bank that engages in payment or cash withdrawal business but whose acquisition business is significantly less extensive than its issuing activity (compared to the business concluded by all the banking members of the Group) will be charged an amount varying from EUR 0 to EUR 11 per active CB payment card and between EUR 0 and EUR 3 per active CB cash withdrawal card, depending on the extent of their acquisition business compared to their issuing business.

[15] The Commission launched in late 2001 the European e-Business Market Watch (the e-Business W@tch) to monitor and analyse the up-take of electronic business across different sectors of the European economy and to provide sound economic analysis in order to improve the understanding of e-business impacts at the sectoral level.

This includes, for instance, improving knowledge transfer from experienced business support organisations to SMEs, providing incentives to SMEs to make use of professional IT and e-business services, showcasing good practice examples, and helping SMEs to improve the managerial understanding of e-business issues and enhance their employees' e-business skills.

This Communication presents the latest available statistical evidence on the use of ICT and e-business by SMEs and identifies the main e-business policy challenges at national and European levels, building upon the results of the benchmarking report on regional and national e-business policies and the most advanced e-business initiatives that could be found.

As policies move on to promote more sophisticated usage of e-business and eventually the full integration of e-business into the regular business practices, the definition of e-business policy objectives and appropriate quantitative and qualitative targets becomes more difficult but at the same time also more pertinent.

The proposal that is now before us provides postal companies with the opportunity to become modern businesses within a realistic timeframe, by no later than 2009, with a clearly defined set of tasks and with transparent accounts, businesses that put the interests of their customers before their own and fulfil a social function at the same time.

(b) where applicable, the name and business address of the representative appointed by the holder other than a representative falling within the first subparagraph of Article 77(3) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; if more than one representative has the same business address, only the name and business address of the first-named representative shall be published, the name being followed by the words "et al"; if there are two or more representatives with different business addresses, only the address for service determined pursuant to Article 1(1)(e) of this Regulation shall be published; where an association of representatives is appointed ...[+++]pursuant to Article 62(9) only the name and business address of the association shall be published;

The recommendations are published and available to the public, both on the website of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and on the Commission sites, since our reactions to these recommendations are also in the public domain. In fact, some Members of this Parliament closely monitor the bilateral US-EU bilateral business relations and are invited to take part in the annual conference of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue on a regular basis.

The time when the defence of business, especially small and medium-sized business, was like a corporatist battle is long gone, not just because there is only a handful of diehards left who see the world of business through the distorting prism of the class struggle, but above all because, at the start of this third millennium, everyone knows that the issues of employment and social cohesion are crucial for our societies, and business has a pre-eminent role in those issues.

Besides undeniably constituting the basis on which we must construct a policy on business which genuinely serves business, the Charter has the great merit not just of limiting our action to small businesses, but of making them the central point in our thinking, our priority unit of reference.

However, there are important ways in which income from a profession or business is not the same as income from employment. Professionals and business people assume risk by gathering business capital and investing in their business, a task that will be more difficult without the tax deferral; they lease or purchase a business location and business equipment; they employ others; they must protect against liability; they must carry on their business without benefit of unemployment insurance or protection against disability or severance.

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